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title: In February 2022, Cyclone Batsirai killed 121 people, weeks after Cy… — Madagascar · tree and pragmatics
description: In February 2022, Cyclone Batsirai killed 121 people, weeks after Cyclone Ana killed 55 and displaced 130,000. Who acts: Cyclone, Cyclone Ana. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Madagascar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Madagascar, sentence 240

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From Wikipedia, [«Madagascar»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In February 2022, Cyclone Batsirai killed 121 people, weeks after Cyclone Ana killed 55 and displaced 130,000.

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**Who acts:** Cyclone, Cyclone Ana · **What happens:** kill, displace · **To what, where:** 121 people, 55, 130,000

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Madagascar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cyclone, Cyclone Ana), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Madagascar:240
# text = In February 2022, Cyclone Batsirai killed 121 people, weeks after Cyclone Ana killed 55 and displaced 130,000.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Cyclone	Cyclone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Batsirai	Batsirai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	121	121	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	Cyclone	Cyclone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Ana	Ana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	displaced	displace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	130,000	130,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | Cyclone | 121 people and weeks |  |  | february |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past | Cyclone Ana | 55 |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 55=Theme |
| 3 | **displace** | past | Cyclone Ana *not said here* | 130,000 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Madagascar», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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